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Meanings of diaeresis in English

Portuguese
trema
Catalan
dièresi
Spanish
dialefa

A diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German to indicate a change in sound.

        trema
        Usage of diaeresis in English
        1
        He used a diaeresis in preeminent, and accented e's in debris and denouement.
        Wake-Robin
        2
        Transcript (light orchestral music) I'm looking for an example of a diaeresis.
        The new yorker
        3
        The diaeresis is transcribed by a following hyphen.
        Something of Men I Have Known / With Some Papers of a General Na...
        4
        The diaeresis we use in English.
        The new yorker
        5
        Wife Number Four -Emanuel Eli Washinsky, except that he was unsuitable by virtue of having no diaeresis.
        Kalooki Nights
        6
        We put those two dots, the diaeresis over the second O in cooperate and the second E in preexisting.
        The new yorker
        7
        If I had my search function on, I could find many of the words that we use the diaeresis on.
        The new yorker
        8
        He used a diaeresis in preeminent, and accented "e"s in debris and denouement, and in some French words.
        Winter Sunshine
        9
        A Diaeresis is put over the latter of two vowels, to show that they belong to two distinct syllables; thus, cooperate.
        McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader
        Translations for diaeresis
        Portuguese
        tremadiérese
        Catalan
        dièresi
        Spanish
        dialefa
        Diaeresis through the time